[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] Many mega-dittoes from me on...
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AirBeagleMemory of a Town Past
We went to see “A Home at the End of the World“ last night at the Michigan. The screening was introduced by Tom Hulce, best known for his performance 20 years ago in Milos Forman’s “Amadeus...
A Major Convenience
I can’t believe how great it is that the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority has finally gotten with the program and is starting to allow people with University of Michigan IDs to ride the bus without paying...
Blame California
I’m no paragon of the spoken word, as anyone who knows me can verify, but it always amuses me when I hear students — not just undergrads, grads and everyone in between — using filler words in their...
The Influx Begins
This afternoon while I was waiting for the bus, I saw a couple of undergrad-looking guys, one toting what looked like a box containing a router and the other some other kind of electronic doohickey in a Toshiba box, and...
Retro Post—5-Aug-03
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] Well, it looks like this one...
Retro Post—4-Aug-03 #2
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] I have to admit to being a...
Retro Post—4-Aug-03
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] Fog. Oh, the fog. Yes...
Retro Post—3-Aug-03
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] I do miss the ease of BART...
Summer Sounds
I was walking along William today and a man sitting on his porch was blasting what sounded an awful lot like Billie Holiday out one of the front windows of his house.
Ah, summer.
Retro Post—2-Aug-03 #4
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] The stairway walks are...
Retro Post—2-Aug-03 #3
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] Mitchell’s is pretty...
Retro Post—2-Aug-03 #2
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] Oh yeah, I remember views...
Retro Post—2-Aug-03
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] I have to say that there are...
Retro Post—1-Aug-03 #3
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] I have to agree with Frank...
Retro Post—1-Aug-03 #2
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] In his first postings to...
Retro Post—1-Aug-03 #1
Here’s another retro/anniversary post … skip it you’re not into my sentimentality. I apparently made a laundry list of things I would and would not miss about San Francisco. A year later, well, my list...
Retro Post—31-Jul-03
[It’s aSquared’s First Birthday … we’re celebrating by looking back at events from a year ago … skip these retro posts if you’re not into sentimentality.] This was Frank’s first...
The Passion of the Wrist
Saw the surgeon today: Verdict was basically the beginnings of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Ergo, I won’t be using the computer much for the next six weeks and so won’t be posting here much. I’m to remain...
Preach It!
John Kerry’s speech had its eye-rolling moments, but it also had it’s total kick-ass ones too. He’ll have to keep hammering these points home if he expects to decisively send the Boy Emperor packing in...
An Example of Something Not to Use a Blog For
Warning to the untutored: Do not try to tie a firecracker to a bunny rabbit, fail in your attempt to explode said rodent, and then post the photographs of the spectacle to the World Wide Web, as some teenage lifeguard...
Clash of Cultures in the Diag
Yesterday I saw a campus tour guide leading a large group through the Diag, attempting to make her comments about the Physics Building heard over the monologue of a preaching regular who was standing on one of the short...
Summer Waning
I don’t know why, but in addition to the lazier-than-usual vibe around town, these all feel like signs that summer is starting to enter its waning stage (even though the season’s only been here five weeks...
Cell Phone Invasion
There’s another thing I don’t understand. I freely admit I’m not yet with it when it comes to cell phones. I use them when they’re necessary, but not much otherwise. And I just don’t get...
Elevator Etiquette
Okay, I’ve lost the ability to understand what it ws that I’m supposed to do in an elevator when it stops on a floor and there are people waiting to get in and I’m waiting to get out. It used to be...
The President Speaks
« President Al Gore spoke to the Democratic National Convention this evening »: ’”I sincerely ask those watching at home who supported [The Boy Emperor] four years ago: Did you really get what...
Welcome to Michigan
« Gay bicyclists camp torched in northern Michigan »: ’ Dozens of sleeping gay cyclists scrambled for their lives as an arsonist set fire to their campsite. About 75 members of Friends North were on a...
Driving School Flunkout Behavior
A driver on Stadium honks impatiently at a car in front of him/her who was trying to turn right onto a side street. It was rush hour, but so what? I mean, I can understand honking in certain limited circumstances...
Summer Highlights
One of my favorite parts of the summer so far has been the way the light looks at dusk, especially when the fireflies come out and start lighting up the backyard with their silent fireworks. That and the very noisy...
Cold Front
There weren’t any out-of-the-ordinary explanations for the temperature drop late last week. According to the Ann Arbor News, a cold front made it way through southeastern Michigan on Friday. The low temperature on...
Woodpecker
We were walking the dog in a completely deserted Frisinger Park this afternoon when I looked up into a tree and saw what must have been a downy woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) doing a strange little woodpecker dance as...
The Anatomy of Fascism
I’ve started reading the new book, The Anatomy of Facism, by Robert O. Paxton, so I’ll probably have plenty to add to my entry on Fascism below. So far, it’s a good overview of fascism as a phenomenon...
Scenes from the Mall
While helping a (female) friend shop at the mall last night, I witnessed something rather odd for the midwest: two early twenty-something guys (with 70s hair and tattoos and sunglasses) in the women’s department...
War of Titles
There’s a lot of debate these days about how “polarized” the country is. If you were to base your conclusions simply on perusing the list of new non-fiction titles at the Ann Arbor District Library (or...
The Consequences of Fear
As a followup to the post below about a white woman’s encounter with a group of suspicious swarthy men on a flight to L.A., « the truth is finally coming out »: ‘Undercover federal air marshals...
Overheard at the Fair
What fun the Fair was! Lots of good food … crowds of strangers carrying artsy things on sticks … fiddling boys playing for tips … an earnest young woman pressing a brochure into my hand that proclaimed...
Great Weather
The one really enjoyable part of yesterday’s Fair was the weather. After five days or so of high-80s temps and punishing humidity, the temperature and the humidity both just suddenly dropped into the cellar (the...
The Second Two Days
Well ….. the Friday crowds were definitely way bigger than the first two days. It was a little overwhelming at times, actually. Not completely claustrophobic; if you wanted to get away you could still move to the...
Overheard at the Fair
The most frequent conversation I overheard at the Fair was along the lines of the following: TEENAGER: I wanna go hooooome! MOM: No, we’re not going home. Or: KID: I don’t wanna waaaaalk anymore! MOM:...
The Only Thing We Have to Fear …
First, it started with a first-person account of a « white woman’s scary encounter with swarthy scary Ay-rabs »: It seems that 14 scary swarthy men did mighty suspicious things on a flight to L.A. The...
Fair Day Two
The second day of the Fair(s) was more crowded than the first, but there was still plenty of elbow room. I started out at the area around Fifth and Liberty and made my way east and south to campus, taking a few photos...
No Anonymice
I see that « some local reporters have more chutzpah than the national press »: ’… as reporters in Omaha, Neb., proved last week. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz visited the area...
Thank You Canada!
« Dear America »,
‘On November 2nd, please elect a new government.
Signed, Your Friends in Canada …’
Art Fair Photos – Day Two
Frank took more really great pics of day two of the Ann Arbor Art Fair:
« Ann Arbor Art Fair ‘04: Day Two »
Again … so very Ann Arbor!
The Fair(s)
Thanks to Steve for posting the photos. The one of the spray-painted “ART NOT WAR” sign was actually not “technically” part of the fair(s); it’s been in that bus shelter on South U for...
Art Fair Photos – Day One
Frank took some pics of the first day of Art Fair around campus today:
« Ann Arbor Art Fair ‘04: Day One »
Love that first one … so very Ann Arbor.
